Coix Seed Extract(Job's Tear Seed Extract )

[ Latin Name ] Semen Coicis/Coix lacryma-jobi L.
[ Specification ] 16.2%protein 79%carbohydrate
[ Detection method ] HPLC
[ Part Used ] Seed
[ Active ingredients ] Coixenolide, coixol
[ Appearance ] Brown Powder
About Coix Seed Extract(Job's Tear Seed Extract)
Coix Seed Strengthens the spleen and lung, excreting dampness and inducing diuresis, clearing away heat to drain pus.
1)For deficient spleen,excessive dampness and disorderly diges-tion in carcinoma of digestive tract, it is used with olden-landia, white atrac-tylodes rhizome , poria, greenbrier rhizome, shell of areca nut and others.
2) For phlegm- heat accompanied with dampness in lung cancer, it is used together with lepi-dium seed , trichosanthes fruit, dandelion, hout-tuynia, poria and others.
3) For accumulation of dampness and excess toxin in cancers of uterine cervix and ovary, it is used with phellodendron bark, seven-lobed yam, Hindu lotus stamen and toona.
4) For chorioepithelioma, it is used with houttuynia, adsuki bean seed, patrinia, astragalus root, rubia rot, waxgourd seed, chinese ange-lica root, danghsen, donkey-hide gelatin,licorice root, etc. It induces antitumour and en-hances immunologicfunction. The extract and decoc-tion of coix seedinhibit various tumourcells. Its active component, coixeno-lide, promotes cellu-lar immunity and humoral immunity.